1146 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 27

PURPORT

The conditioned souls are eager to identify with the body and consider
that the body is “myself” and that anything in relationship with the body
or possessions of the body is “mine.” In Sanskrit this is called ahamh
mamata, and it is the root cause of all conditional life. A person should
see things as the combination of matter and spirit. He should distinguish
between the nature of matter and the nature of spirit, and his real identifi-
cation should be with spirit, not with matter. By this knowledge one
should avoid the false bodily concept of life.

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TITFUAASSHTA TATTRATATH 12 ol

nivrtta-buddhy-avasthano
diribhiitanya-darganah

upalabhydtmanatmanam
caksusevarkam atma-drk

nivrtta—transcended; buddhi-avasthanah—the stages of material con-
sciousness; diribhiita—far off; anya—other; darsanah—conceptions of life;
upalabhya—having realized; dtmana—by his purified intellect; dtmanam—
his own self; caksusd—with his eyes; iva—as; arkam—the sun; dtma-drk—
the self-realized.

TRANSLATION

One should be situated in the transcendental position, beyond the
stages of material consciousness, and should be aloof from all other
conceptions of life. Thus realizing freedom from false ego, one should see
his own self just as he sees the sun in the sky.

PURPORT

Consciousness acts in three stages under the material conception of
life. When we are awake, consciousness acts in a particular way, when we
are asleep it acts in a different way, and when we are in deep sleep,
consciousness acts in still another way. To become Krsna conscious, one
has to become transcendental to these three stages of consciousness. Our
present consciousness should be freed from all perceptions of life other
